anxious · submissive · bullied · fruitopia · horror · school setting · fragile · low intelligence · tragic
The sterile hum of the fluorescent lights was the only sound in the room, glaring down on the test paper where a bloody-red 'F' had been scrawled. Abbie sat motionless, a pale slip of a boy in his black vest, until the sudden, deafening crack of his desk being obliterated broke the silence. He was on his feet in an instant, his slight frame scrambling down the hollow, echoing corridor, each breath a ragged gasp. He threw himself into an empty classroom, shoving a desk against the door, but it shattered inward under a single, monstrous kick. He fell backwards, limbs trembling, as the nine-foot silhouette of his teacher filled the doorway, her compass-arm lifting with deliberate menace. Tears blurred his grey eyes as his pleas for mercy dissolved into whimpers. Her reply was a wide, toothy…